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Travelers wearing face masks line up near the Japan Airlines check-in counters at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. China counted 170 deaths from a new virus Thursday and more countries reported infections, including some spread locally, as foreign evacuees from China's worst-hit region returned home to medical observation and even isolation. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Japan urges citizens not to travel to China because of virus

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Wearing surgical masks, Takeo Aoyama, center left, and Takayuki Kato, center right, employees at Nippon Steel Corp.s subsidiary in Wuhan, China, speak to journalists after returning home by a Japanese chartered plane at Haneda international airport in Tokyo Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. Japan on Wednesday began evacuating their citizens from the Chinese city hardest-hit by an outbreak of a new virus. Aoyama said more than 400 Japanese people wishing to return to Japan are in Wuhan. (AP Photo/Haruka Nuga)

Japan Wuhan evacuees arrive in Tokyo

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Chinese tourists wear masks at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. China has confirmed more than 4,500 cases of a new virus. Most have been in the central city of Wuhan where the outbreak began in December. More than 45 cases have been confirmed in other places with nearly all of them involving Chinese tourists or people who visited Wuhan recently. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

The Latest: Fuss over Thai navy officers’ return from China

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A Japanese chartered plane carrying evacuees from Wuhan, China, landed at Haneda international airport in Tokyo Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. Countries on Wednesday began evacuating their citizens from the Chinese city hardest-hit by an outbreak of a new virus. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japanese evacuation flight brings back workers from Wuhan

By KAORI HITOMI and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam adjusts protective face mask during a press conference held in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. Lam has announced that all rail links to mainland China will be cut starting Friday as fears grow about the spread of a new virus. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Hong Kong halts trains from mainland China as virus spreads

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, speaks to reporters at his official residence in Tokyo Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. Abe said he is making arrangements to fly Japanese people home from the Chinese city of Wuhan, hit by an outbreak of a new virus recently. (Mizuki Ikari/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan: Flight readied for Japanese to come home from Wuhan

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this Jan. 24, 2018, photo, a worker watches loading and unloading of cargo containers at a port in Tokyo. Japan had the second straight year of red ink in trade for year 2019, hurt by a slowdown of demand in China, according to government data released Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Japan has second straight year of red ink on trade last year

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In this Dec. 11, 1998, photo, then Fukuoka Daiei Hawks manager Sadahara Oh, front right, answers to reporters' questions in front of his house in Fukuoka, southern Japan, following the Japanese baseball team's investigation report on suspicion of sign stealing. If you thought the use of technology to steal catchers' signs was only a problem for Major League Baseball and the Houston Astros, or something new. Japan went through a similar scandal just over 20 years ago. In a widely reported scandal in 1998, a camera in the Fukuoka Dome was discovered to be focused on the catcher. Officials of the Hawks - now the SoftBank Hawks - reportedly monitored the signs and relayed them by walkie-talkie to fans in the stands, who then used signals to batters to indicated the next pitch. (Kyodo News via AP)

Electronic sign stealing: A scandal two decades ago in Japan

By STEPHEN WADE and JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the 60th anniversary commemorative reception of the signing of the Japan-US security treaty at the Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo, Sunday, July 19, 2020. (Behrouz Mehri/Pool Photo via AP)

Abe says new unit will defend Japan from space tech threats

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn speaks to Japanese media during an interview in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. A lawyer for Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's former chairman who skipped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon, on Friday slammed a gaffe by the Japanese justice minister who said that Ghosn should “prove&quot; his innocence. Ghosn, who was awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges, fled Tokyo and appeared in Beirut Dec. 30. (Meika Fujio/Kyodo News via AP)

Ghosn lawyers rebut new Nissan claims against fugitive exec

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Tokyo-based Australian journalist Scott McIntyre speaks during a press conference at Foreign Correspondent's Club Japan in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. McIntyre said he is a victim of “inhumane&quot; custody laws that allow only one side of the parents access to children of broken marriages, the day after he was convicted of trespassing at the apartment building of his estranged wife's in-laws for trying to find his children. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan convicts Australian who sought to see his children

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japan's Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks during a meeting at his ministry in Tokyo, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. Japan's popular environment minister Koizumi said he will to take paternity leave when he expects his first child later this month, seeking to be a good example for working fathers in Japan where men are largely absent in child raring and other family roles because of persisting expectations for men to focus on work. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan gov’t minister to take paternity leave, still a rarity

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Paralympian Monika Seryu, right, and comedian Ryota Yamasato unveil tickets for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Second Paralympic lottery opens for Japan residents only

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FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2020, file photo, Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso poses during a ceremony marking the start of this year's trading in Tokyo. Japan's gaffe-prone finance minister Aso came under fire, this time for praising Japan for what he says is the world's only country of single race, language and monarchy that lasted for 2,000 years - a remark that invited criticisms that he neglected Japanese indigenous ethnic group of Ainu and the reality of more racially diverse population elsewhere. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Deputy prime minister calls Japan a nation with single race

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2019, file photo, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the 8th trilateral leaders' meeting between China, South Korea and Japan in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province. Abe will go ahead with a planned visit to the Middle East this weekend despite the crisis in the region, a spokesman said Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. (Wang Zhao/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Japan’s Abe to go ahead with Mideast visit despite crisis

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Japanese Justice Minister Masako Mori speaks about Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn during a press conference at her ministry in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. Mori is denouncing Ghosn's criticism of the nation's criminal justice system. Mori said she wanted to prevent his spreading an &quot;erroneous&quot; understanding abroad about Japan's system. Ghosn, who skipped bail while awaiting trial here, said in Beirut that Japan's system was unfair and rigged. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Ghosn’s lawyer slams minister’s gaffe on proving innocence

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn speaks at a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Fugitive Ghosn brings global attention to Japanese justice

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

A sign welcomes motorists to Tierra del Mar, Ore., Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. The tiny coastal village is opposing a plan by Facebook to build a landing spot for a submarine cable connecting America with Asia. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Facebook riles tiny Oregon town with plan for undersea cable

By Andrew Selsky - Associated Press

Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn, speaks at a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Lebanon issues travel ban for fugitive ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

This March 2019, file photo shows former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, right, and his wife Carole in Tokyo. Tokyo prosecutors issued an arrest warrant Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, for the wife of Nissan's former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, on suspicion of perjury. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Carlos Ghosn, Nissan’s fugitive ex-chairman, says Japan arrest was a plot

By Zeina Karam and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press